Josh Klinghoffer

Josh Klinghoffer uses the JHS Colour Box overdrive pedal, as evidenced by a photo from his website.

"A fully standard Guv'nor right here," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Marshall Guv'nor Mk1 Overdrive Pedal.

Dot Hacker's official Twitter account posted this image set, which includes a picture in which Josh Klinghoffer's EarthQuaker Devices Dispatch Master can be seen.

"It's used for a short slapback-like thing," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man XO Analog Delay Guitar Effects Pedal.

Josh Klinghoffer uses the DOD Overdrive Preamp 250, as detailed in the effects section of the Groundguitar article "Josh Klinghoffer's Guitars and Gear."

"It's a fairly noticeable thick Vibrato that he uses, like on 'Suck My Kiss,' he'll bring that on. So it is a really distorted tone but he's got quite a heavy vibrato on it as well. That can get quite psychadelic at once," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Boss VB-2 Vibrato Guitar Effect Pedal.

According to this website he currently uses the JHS Muffuletta 6-way Fuzz on the Getaway tour.

Josh plays a Memory boy as seen in the last RHCP rig rundown.

"They're set for two clipped repeats and then this sort of glitching Radiohead-like Johnny Greenwood kind of thing," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Boss DD-3 Digital Delay Pedal.

"We've got the EP Booster that just seems to work best. We don't really experience a lot of signal loss, weirdly. You would've thought with all these pedals, even if you compare it with the strength of the amps, it is beyond me why there's even any signal coming out at the end of this. It really is, but the EP Booster seemed to give the best of itself at that point in the chain," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.

Dot Hacker's Twitter account posted this photo set, which include a photo in which Josh Klinghoffer's Earthqucker Devices Afterneath pedal can be seen.

According to this website he currently uses the Ibanez BS-10 Bass Stack on the Getaway tour.

At 25:00 you can see Ian, his guitar tech, showing his pedals. In this moment he's showing the Death By Audio Interstellar Overdriver.

"The Cybertronic here, for example, would have to use a reverse wired expression pedal of its own but now I can just have one pedal, and the taper is reversed on the expression instead… This is a really, really high-end, whispy, headphones-are-broken kind of filter," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Lastgasp Labs Cybetronic Pedal.

"We've got the Boss Slow Gear which is sort of fun for messing around with. It's basically just like a violining pedal, it just responds to the attack of your picking and just fades in correspondingly depending on how you set it. I'm not terribly convinced by it to be honest. I think people buy it because it's rare. I think you could just do the same thing with a volume knob," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.

"It's a series of reverbs just set for different size rooms," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.

An Analog Man Peppermint Fuzz pedal can be seen on Josh Klinghoffer's pedalboard in this photo.

In a photo posted on Twitter, Josh Klinghoffer can be seen using the Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer.

In the first picture, Josh Klinghoffer is seen with an Ibanez BC-9 Bi-Mode Chorus pedal.

In the Premier Guitar article "Dot Hacker: Psychic Friends Network," Josh Klinghoffer is noted for using the Univox U-1095 Super-Fuzz pedal.

According to this website Josh uses the DS2 Turbo Distortion by Boss for the Getaway tour.

According to this website he currently uses the Boss SP-1 Spectrum on the Getaway tour.

During The Getaway Tour, Josh Klinghoffer used the Xotic Effects SP Compressor, as detailed in Alessandra's article on Eye Opener.

He used this pedal at the Chili Peppers performance in front of the Pyramids of Gyza in Cairo Egypt. You can see this pedal along with it's classic EVH paint job on the far left hand side of Josh's pedal board at 17:02 and at 19:20 in the video, while he is playing "The Zephyr Song".

Used live with RHCP, as featured in this May 16, 2012 Electro-Harmonix Blog post

Congratulations to the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!

Chris Warren (tech + keyboardist) with the band texted Suzi Matthews while on tour to let her know that Anthony Kiedis is using a V256 Vocoder on “By the Way.” And Josh Klinghoffer’s rig includes a Cathedral Stereo Reverb, Freeze Sound Retainer, Holy Grail Reverb and a Deluxe Memory Man Analog Delay/Chorus/Vibrato.

"We got the Pigtronix with a nice little bit of protection for the knobs because that's going to get stomped on," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Pigtronix PolySaturator Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal.

"We've got a modded one which is really, really wide and out of tune. Then we've got a classic. The mod on the first CE-2 is literally just to widen the sweep. So you get a really almost Leslie-like out-of-tune for the wobble to that. The right hand of those CE-2s just has a very warm, I guess you might almost say a slightly 80s sounding chorus on it. Then people will hear that and say, 'Oh that's a sound I know'," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Boss CE-2 Chorus Guitar Effect Pedal.

"We've got the Line 6 doing the job of all the weird synth experimentation that came from a lot of Chili Pepper songs… This one is for a bunch of the synth sounds, like sequential kind of noises and some really heavily synthed out tremolo sounds," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech about the Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler Guitar Effects Pedal.

"The Moog 12-stage phaser, that's just one sound that is on 'Throw Away Television,' which he uses in conjunction with the sequential synth on the FM4," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.

"We've got the Freeze here. Josh likes non-guitaristic appraoches to guitar playing. Sometimes he'll just flip between that and the DD-6 next to it," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.